incurvation

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With the second leaf there was a trace of incurvation in 2 hrs.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

Empty cells becoming confluent, vesicular by incurvation of the circular margin, forming a deep and round umbilication.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Among the older writers who describe incurvation or torsion of the penis are Arantius, the Ephemerides, Haenel, Petit, Schurig, Tulpius, and Zacchias.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

But as the incurvation lasts for so short a time, any such benefit can be of only slight importance, yet perhaps greater than at first appears.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

The pressure from fragments of glass excites movement almost as quickly as the absorption of nitrogenous matter, but the degree of incurvation thus caused is much less.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles